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1、Useofhumorasacopingmechanism,psychologicaladjustment,andsocialinteractionJOHNB.NEZLEKandPETERDERKSAbstractFortwoweeks,286participantsusedtheRochesterInteractionRecordtodescribetheirsocialinteractions.TheyalsocompletedtheCopingwithHumorScaleandmeasuresofdepression,socialskills,lon
2、eliness,andsocialanxiety.ScoresontheCHSwerepositivelyrelatedtohowpleasurablepeoplefoundtheirinteractions,howcon®denttheyfeltintheirinteractions,andhowmuchtimetheyspentwithothers.Moreover,thestrengthoftheserelationshipswasmoderatedbydepression,butnotbyothermeasuresofadjustment.The
3、serelationshipswerestrongerforpeoplewhowerelessdepressed.Incontemporarysocietytheworldover,humorandlaughterarefrequentlypresumedtobemeanspeoplecanusetocopewithlife'sdiculties(Ziv1988).Suchculturalbeliefsarere¯ectedinsloganssuchas``Laughteristhebestmedicine,''andinlyricssuchas``Le
4、tasmilebeyourumbrella''and``Packupyourtroublesinyouroldkitbagandsmile,smile,smile.''Consistentwithsuchrecommendations,researchontherelationshipsbetweenlaughterandcopingwithstresshasfoundthatpeoplecananddousehumortocopewithstressandadversity.More-over,thisresearchsuggeststhatthere
5、aremeaningfulindividualdierencesintheextenttowhichpeopledothis.Thepresentstudywasintendedtoexpandourunderstandingofpeople'suseofhumorasacopingmechanismbyexaminingtherelation-shipsbetweenthisconstructandpeople'sday-to-daysociallivesandtheirgeneralpsychologicaladjustment.Thestudywa
6、sguidedbythegeneralhypothesisthattheuseofhumorasameansofcopingwouldbepositivelyrelatedtothequalityofpeople'ssociallives.ThishypothesiswasbasedHumor14±4(2001),395±4130933±1719/01/0014±0395#WalterdeGruyter396J.B.NezlekandP.Derksprimarilyonresearchdemonstratingthatlaughterandasenseo
7、fhumorareassociatedwithmorepositiveandrewardinginterpersonalencounters.Forexample,studiesofmeetingsbetweenstrangers(Grammer1990),friendsconversing(LampertandErvin-Tripp1998,Norrick1993),andjudgementsofcontrivedscripts(DerksandBerkowitz1989)havefoundthatlaughterhasapositiveimpacto
8、npeople'sreactionstointerpersonalencount